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Raines Feldman Founder On Why Time's Up On Billable Hour
Raines Feldman Littrell LLP has used an outcome-focused billing model for 16 years. The firm is currently tweaking its model with the help of artificial intelligence. Here, firm co-founder Miles Feldman talks to Law360 Pulse about why the clock is ticking on the billable hour.
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Big 12 Gives Interim GC The Top Spot
The Big 12 Conference has moved its interim general counsel into the top spot of the collegiate athletic organization's legal department, just months after its previous general counsel departed for the Southeastern Conference.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another action-packed week as firms announced new office leaders and expanded their offerings across the country. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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ArentFox Schiff's New LA Head Talks Success For 'Long Run'
As just the third managing partner in the history of ArentFox Schiff LLP's Los Angeles office, Aram Ordubegian is looking to help it thrive "for the long run."
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ArentFox Schiff Hires Ex-Haynes Boone Real Estate Ace In NY
ArentFox Schiff has hired an ex-Haynes Boone attorney with over 25 years of experience for a partner role on its real estate team in New York City, the firm announced Tuesday.
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DLA Piper Relocates Office In San Juan, Puerto Rico
Law firm DLA Piper has moved its Puerto Rico location from a space in San Juan that the firm has occupied since it opened an office in the city a decade ago.
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IP Firms Are Navigating AI Era With Range Of Guardrails
Intellectual property law firms are taking various approaches to implementing artificial intelligence into their professional routines, with some developing their own tools, others limiting what external AI platforms that lawyers can access and one firm saying it has banned attorneys from using AI to draft legal briefs.
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Ballard Spahr Enters San Francisco With Benesch Litigators
Ballard Spahr LLP announced Thursday that it has launched a San Francisco office with a four-member litigation team who came aboard from Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP.
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Goodwin Expands Healthcare Team With Ex-Reed Smith Atty
A healthcare attorney specializing in guiding clients through regulatory and transactional matters has moved her practice to Goodwin Procter LLP's Philadelphia office after more than 11 years with Reed Smith LLP.
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International Trade Group Of The Year: Cassidy Levy
Cassidy Levy Kent LLP led a company's challenge to overturn a moratorium on tariffs applied to solar energy products and helped guide one of the world's largest motor manufacturers through major U.S. import compliance matters, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 International Trade Groups of the Year.
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Sports & Betting Group Of The Year: McDermott
McDermott Will & Schulte's sports practice continued to be at the forefront of record-setting team purchases as private equity firms and other institutional investors continue to secure spots in the owner's box, landing it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Sports & Betting Groups of the Year.
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Intellectual Property Group Of The Year: Kirkland
Kirkland & Ellis LLP attorneys notched landmark victories across copyright, patents and trade secrets, including the first U.S. decision to address whether training artificial intelligence systems with copyrighted content qualifies as fair use, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.
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Government Contracts Group Of The Year: Crowell & Moring
Crowell & Moring LLP's government contracts team steered clients through a rare government equity investment in a defense-critical supply chain deal, as well as two bid protests that ended with the contracts going to the protester, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Government Contracts Groups of the Year.
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Fintech Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP steered collapsed crypto exchange FTX to the resolution of an industry-defining bankruptcy process, was early to the wave of public crypto treasury companies as an adviser to Twenty One Capital, and advised SmartBiz Loans through the acquisition of a bank — landing the law firm among the 2025 Law360 Fintech Groups of the Year.
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Employment Group Of The Year: The DeRubertis Law Firm
The deRubertis Law Firm APC secured recent jury verdicts for workers in employment litigation, including nearly $35 million in a defamation suit and $27.5 million in a whistleblower case, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Employment Groups of the Year.
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Competition Group Of The Year: Wilkinson Stekloff
Wilkinson Stekloff LLP negotiated a crucial settlement for the NCAA while successfully defending it against follow-up cases targeting player eligibility rules and name, image and likeness compensation, earning the firm a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Competition Groups of the Year.
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Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Latham
Latham & Watkins LLP's capital markets team steered a number of blockbuster transactions last year, including StubHub's $800 million initial public offering and Verisure's $4.3 billion IPO, and represented funding sources in Sycamore Partners' $23.7 billion take-private purchase of Walgreens Boots — earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Capital Markets Practice Groups of the Year.
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Cravath M&A Head To Join Martin Marietta As New GC
The co-chair of Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP's global mergers and acquisitions practice is heading in-house, joining building materials company Martin Marietta Materials Inc. as its new legal leader.
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Environmental Group Of The Year: Beveridge & Diamond
Beveridge & Diamond PC helped San Francisco prevail in a closely watched U.S. Supreme Court case over "end result" provisions regulators have often added to wastewater discharge permits, earning it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Environmental Groups of the Year.
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BakerHostetler Adds 3 More Dealmakers From Loeb In NY
BakerHostetler announced on Thursday that it is bolstering its transactions bench with three New York-based mergers and acquisitions attorneys from Loeb & Loeb in a move that the firm says strengthens its offerings in middle-market M&A transactions.
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Foley & Lardner Adds Gray Reed Construction Pro In Dallas
Foley & Lardner LLP has boosted the manufacturing sector of its construction practice group with a Dallas-based partner who came from Gray Reed & McGraw LLP.
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Finding A Firm's Worth, As Private Equity Eyes The Legal Field
A novel question is arising as the legal industry weighs potential private equity interest: How do you value a law firm to buy a stake in its business operations?
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Dinsmore Adds IRS Senior Counsel As Tax Partner In DC
An attorney who spent more than a decade working as an attorney and reviewer at the Internal Revenue Service has joined Dinsmore & Shohl LLP's Washington, D.C., tax group, the firm announced this week.
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Seyfarth Harnessing Superusers As It Decides Next AI Moves
Seyfarth Shaw LLP is connecting with attorneys and staff who are superusers of its generative artificial intelligence tools to gather their feedback as the firm figures out its next steps for the technology.
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Norton Rose Taps Trial Atty As New Head Of LA Office
Norton Rose Fulbright has tapped a veteran trial attorney to be the new head of its Los Angeles office.
Expert Analysis
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Guest Feature
Preparing The Next Generation Of Female Trial Lawyers
To build the ranks of female trial attorneys, law firms must integrate them into every aspect of a case — from witness preparation to courtroom arguments — instead of relegating them to small roles, says Kalpana Srinivasan, co-managing partner at Susman Godfrey.
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Guest Feature
5 Ways Firms Can Avoid Female Atty Exodus During Pandemic
The pandemic's disproportionate impact on women presents law firms with a unique opportunity to devise innovative policies that will address the increasing home life demands female lawyers face and help retain them long after COVID-19 is over, say Roberta Liebenberg at Fine Kaplan and Stephanie Scharf at Scharf Banks.
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If enough law firms undertake some universal diversity best practices, such as connecting minority lawyers to key client relationships and establishing accountability for those charged with spearheading progress, the legal industry could look a lot different in the foreseeable future, says Frederick Nance, global managing partner at Squire Patton.
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Advancing Racial Justice In The Legal Industry And Beyond
In addition to building and nurturing a diverse talent pipeline, law firms should collaborate with general counsel, academics and others to focus on injustices within the broader legal system, says Jonathan Harmon, chairman at McGuireWoods.
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BigLaw Needs More Underrepresented Attorneys As Leaders
Hiring more women, people of color and members of the LGBTQ community to BigLaw positions of power is the first key to making other underrepresented attorneys believe they have an opportunity for a path to leadership, says Ernest Greer, co-president at Greenberg Traurig.
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How Law Firms Can Hire And Retain More Black Attorneys
The pipeline of Black lawyers is limited, so BigLaw firms must invest in Black high school students, ensure Black attorneys receive origination credit and take other bold steps to increase Black representation in the industry, says Benjamin Wilson, chairman at Beveridge & Diamond.
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BigLaw firms often focus on increasing their diversity numbers, but without much attention to equity and inclusion, minority lawyers face substantial barriers after they get their foot in the door, says Patricia Brown Holmes, managing partner at Riley Safer.
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Guest Feature
Diversity Work Doesn't Have To Be Reserved For Partners
Serving on my firm's diversity committee as an associate has allowed me to improve access, support and opportunity for minority attorneys at the firm, while building leadership skills and fostering meaningful relationships with firm management and industry professionals, says Camille Bent at BakerHostetler.